1653, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK

Details

A LONDON DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE TANKARD
1653, PROBABLY SOUTHWARK
Of cylindrical dimpled form and loop handle, the front with the initials .B./G.W/1653 within an oval cartouche surmounted by a crown flanked by scrolling foliage and a Green Man or foliate mask below
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

Provenance

6th Marquess of Bute; Christie's, London, 5 December 1994, lot 3.

Literature

Leslie B. Grigsby, The Longridge Catalogue, Vol. II, D235.
Leslie B. Grigsby, 'Dated English Delftware and Slipware in the Longridge Collection', The Magazine Antiques, June 1999, pp. 880-881, pl. 9.

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Lot Essay

Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of The Glaisher Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 171, no. 1319, pl. 85B for a similarly decorated dated posset-pot of 1651. A plain white mug of this form was in the collection of the Hon. Simon Sainsbury, 'The Creation of an English Arcadia', Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 22.

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